Yes, that’s right.
Anyone who is involved in photography knows that much of what we see is a perspective that can change just from looking at anything from a different angle or distance.
My husband had the pleasure of working with some videographers to piece together something for clients to help them understand how a warehouse distribution center works, with racking, conveyors, and machines that read labels.
One thing they did was to show the robotics that a company can use to help with retrieving orders. In real life, it was a robot on a platform on wheels. It was nonfunctional but eventually can be programmed to do this particular job (or something else if the client needs). It was cheaper and faster to use one that wasn’t programmed yet. So it was placed on a little platform on wheels, attached to rope that someone else on the ground pulled to make it move. The people moving the robot weren’t in the frame, so no one watching the edited version had any idea that it was a non-functional robot. It looked real.
The 5 minute video did a great job of showing prospective customers what their warehouses could look like. The facility shown was also only in drawings, but they looked so real, that you couldn’t tell it in those clips.
Only when you saw the unedited version of the different scenes would you have any idea, just like you said with Luke Skywalker. All the extraneous stuff is edited out and scenes are sewn together.
That is it...if you can present people with the illusion, they are more willing to accept the story you are trying to tell ) such as was done with the sleight of hand with a contrived non-functional robot.
I that case, it is a wonderful communication tool.
As we unfortunately know, there are people who use that power as a communication tool to convey all the wrong things...